Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for WBAN and WLAN Applications

Authors(3) :-D. Selvaraj, D. Arulkumar, D. Dhinakaran

In this paper, a reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna with parasitic arms for controlling the direction of the radiated beam for wireless body area network (WBAN) and wireless local area network (WLAN) is presented. The realized gain of the antenna changes from 1.93dB (off-body mode) to 1.4 dB (on-body) mode. The operating frequency band centered at 2.45 GHz frequency remains unaltered with a bandwidth of 80 MHz.

Authors and Affiliations

D. Selvaraj
Department of Electronics and Communication Engg., Panimalar Engineering College, Chennai, India
D. Arulkumar
Department of Electronics and Communication Engg., Panimalar Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
D. Dhinakaran
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Peri Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Reconfigurable antenna, Wearable antenna, WBAN, WLAN, Microstrip antenna

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 5 | March-April 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-04-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 727-730
Manuscript Number : IJSRST1845120
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

Cite This Article :

D. Selvaraj, D. Arulkumar, D. Dhinakaran, " Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna for WBAN and WLAN Applications", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.727-730, March-April-2018.
Journal URL : https://ijsrst.com/IJSRST1845120
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